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This giant work, in addition to entertaining boys and girls for generations, has defined the first-person novel in America.
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A true classic, a search for America's soul, is given the reading of a lifetime by one of America's finest actors - two - time Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a humorous and nostalgic book depicting the carefree days of boyhood in a small Midwestern town. The characters are based on Twain's schoolmates, and the town is Han...
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Mark Twain's classic tale recounts the adventures of the ever resourceful Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn...
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Aesop's Fables is a collection of tales from the sixth century B.C. in which the animal characters talk and act like humans. Each story has moral lessons as true today as ever.
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Two lovers must choose between love and convention in this classic love story
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Anna Karenina has been described as the perfect Russian novel.
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Green Gables gives Anne a home.
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Here is a selection of some of the best-known and best-loved tales of The Arabian Nights, including "Sinbad," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," "Aladdin," "The Talking Bird," and "The Fisherman and...
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A full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's great classic story of a lost golden age.
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O. Henry wove together several stories into this highly episodic narrative. Set in the fictional country of Coralio in Central America, a banana republic where larceny is rampant and revolution lur...
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Classic sea-faring, coming of age story enjoyed by all ages...
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A deeply perceptive study of love and jealousy.
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During Christmas, four ghosts intervene in the life of an odious, greedy, hard hearted, miser to save him from eternal damnation..
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The Dawn Treader is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries. King Caspian has built it for his first voyage to find the seven lords, good men whom his evil uncle Miraz banished.
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An absolute joy to listen to. An attractive and accessible collection.
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George Eliot’s last and undeniably great novel, which tells the story of young Daniel Deronda and his fateful relationship with the astonishing Gwendolen Harleth.
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Mark Twain’s classic novel of adventure, loyalty and responsibility.
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The glorious but tragic story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
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Don Quixote dons rusty armor to become a knight-errant, roaming the world to right wrongs. From his first encounter with a score of windmills to the night he takes a funeral procession to be a para...
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The classic thriller explores the split nature of man.
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Classic story of the most famous vampire tale of all time.
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The Dracula mythology has inspired a vast subculture, but the story has never been better told than by Bram Stoker. His myth is powerful because it allows evil to remain mysterious. The high virtue...
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An award-winning reading of Joyce's fourteen accessible stories including 'The Dead'.
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James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories about the lives of the people of Dublin around the turn of the century.
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Arrogant, self-willed and egotistical, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine.
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Jane Austen’s engaging and infuriating heroine sparkles in this superb full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation...
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Two great stories from the Jazz Age: 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' and 'The Jelly Bean'.
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Amazing tales from Edgar Allan Poe, which demonstrate his unique imagination.
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Once banned for obscenity, now considered a classic of the genre
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A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse...
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John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize-winning author, chronicles the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during...
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In these four short stories, Conan Doyle draws the listener in to experience drama, suspense and, ultimately, the shock of surprise.
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Original and classic story of the creature created by Dr. Frankenstein.
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The penultimate volume of Remembrance of Things Past.
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China.
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'Gulliver's travels' describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature...
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The touching story of Tom Jones, a foundling.
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The legend of the hound which has brought terror to the Baskerville family for generations brings Sherlock Holmes up against...
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Dick Young stays in his friend Professor Magnus Lane's house in Cornwall, on the understanding he will be a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has developed.
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This classic chiller by Edgar Allen Poe, presented here with original music.
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This elaborate fabrication proceeds smoothly until Jack/Ernest falls in love and his fiancee’s mother discovers there is more – or, rather, less – to him than meets the eye.
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'The love of battle is the food upon which we live – the dust of the melee is the breath of our nostrils! we live not – we wish not to live...
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One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr Rochester.
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"Hither the Gods come not at any summons. The Nameless One has insulted them and is forever alone. Go not nigh, lest their vengeance wither you away!" The warning was inscribed on the entrance of t...
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The Jungle is the dramatic exposé of the Chicago meat-packing industry at the turn of the century that prompted an investigation by Theodore Roosevelt, culminating in the pure-food legislation of 1...
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Set in the days of the British Raj, Kipling's finest novel is an exciting and touching tale.
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In this audio presentation are six stories from Joseph M. Marshall's award-winning book, The Lakota Way, read by the author and enriched with musical performances by noted American Indian musicians...
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From Bernard Cornwell, the New York Times bestselling author comes a saga of blood, rage, fidelity, and betrayal...
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Two American classics which tell of the earliest days in Dutch New York: Inchabod Crane's encounter with the Headless Horseman, and Rip's long nap.
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Les Miserables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets we encounter "the wolf-like tread of crime".
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The third part of Tolkien's enthralling triology...
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Malone Dies catches the reality of old age in a way that is grimly convincing, cruel as humour so often is, and memorable because of Beckett's way with words.
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Molloy is a remarkable novel, raising the questions of being and aloneness that marks so much of Beckett's work, but richly comic as well.
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This novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply delineated, carefully wrought "private ...
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An investigation into the disappearance of a huge and priceless gem, the Moonstone.
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The famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent -- a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.
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When Catherine Morland, a country clergyman's daughter, is invited to spend a season in Bath with the fashionable high society, little does she imagine the delights and perils that await her.
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Santiago, wise old fisherman and hero of this masterpiece of story-telling, toils on the high seas for 84 days without a catch. Then he hooks a gigantic marlin and his epic confrontation begins...
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The great epic Paradise Lost tells of the revolt of Satan and his banishment from heaven and the fall of man and his expulsion from Eden. Writing in blank verse of unsurpassed majesty, Milton demon...
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Phineas Finn is an Irishman climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliam...
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Oscar Wilde's novel is a masterly study of moral corruption, a tour-de-force suspense and surprise.
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For three hundred years The Pilgrim's Progress has remained perhaps the best-loved and most read of devotional fictions.
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This work is remarkable for the vivid characterizations, especially of Dievushkin, solely by means of his letters to his love Barbara and her answers to him.
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Published in 1916, 'A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man' follows the progress...
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Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story.
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A delightful novel about "how girls catch husbands"
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This famous novel has become Jane Austen's best-loved and best-known work.
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This marvellous account of family life in Regency England is read with vigour and style by Emilia Fox.
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The winsome Anne Shirley is grown, married, and the mother of six frolicsome children. When the Meredith family moves into a nearby mansion, the clever and mischievous Meredith kids join Anne's chi...
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Protaganist Larry seeks spiritual recovery from the pain of World War I.
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The book begins with the restless longings of young Robinson Crusoe for travel and adventure and climaxes with the ultimate fusion of man's resourcefulness with the agents of nature. The remarkably...
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Robinson Crusoe, the first English novel, was an immediate success when first published in 1719, and has been an internationally popular classic ever since.
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Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E. M. Forster’s glorious tale of love in Italy and England...
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The classic American story of Hester Prynne, accused of adultery, ostracized by her Puritan community, and abandoned by both her lover and her husband.
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A Secret Garden heals.
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In Sense and Sensibility, the first of Jane Austen's novels to be published, Austen created a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly. Genteel dinner parties and romantic walks through luxuri...
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Full-Cast. Holmes engages his arch enemy Professor Moriarty in a deadly battle of wits
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Silas Marner's redemption and restoration endorses the goodness in people...
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We are compelled to follow the humble and mysterious figure of the linen weaver Silas Marner, on his journey from solitude and exile to the warmth and joy of family life.
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The Silmarillion tells of the First Age of Tolkien’s world, the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings so often...
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Set in Baden-Baden, Smoke is Turgenev's most cosmopolitan novel. It is an exquisite study of politics and society as well as an enduringly poignant love story. Smoke, with its European setting and ...
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Drawing on the history of his own family, Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland chronicles the experiences of a generation. A Son of the Middle Border, Garland's bittersweet narrative of growing up ...
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A rare pearl is fought over during a hurricane on a South Sea island. A zealous missionary sets out to spread the Gospel in a land of cannibals. The son of a Polynesian chief becomes the slave of a...
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The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful style.
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Swann in Love is the continuation of Swann's Way. the first part of Marcel Proust' s monumental cycle Remembrance of Things Past.
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A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens' only historical novel.
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This captivating tale, set in London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution, uses the contrasts between the cities' "beliefs" to reveal the central choice confronting all of society: should...
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Tess, the young and lovely heroine of Hardy's classic tale, knows instinctively that the path she is choosing is the wrong one...
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A moving and unforgettable classic.
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Theatre Royal: In this episode from the series, Ralph Richardson stars in a fully dramatised adaptation of the famous Private Rooms classic by J.B.Priestley...
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There is a love affair, a duel, and a climactic courtroom scene, just as in Puddnhead Wilson, but in this book it's all for laughs.
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Here is one of the greatest English comic novels read by incontrovertible King of English comic audiobook readers - Martin Jarvis. Jerome's delightful novel paints a vivid picture of innocent fun.
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The young and headstrong D'Artagnan, having proven his bravery by dueling with each, becomes a friend of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, members of the King's Musketeers.
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When a time traveler seeks a better world 802,000 years in the future, his optimism is shaken when he discovers that the human race has turned upon itself in a primal display of horror.
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To The Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's most accomplished novel, and her most autobiographical.
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A classic BBC Radio full-cast drama of Dylan Thomas' poetic play for voices starring Richard Burton...
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Grace Melbury, the only daughter of a timber-merchant, arrives home in Little Hintock after an expensive education and her father...
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The saga of two Yorkshire families in the remote Pennine Hills. The story has been interpreted as an historical romance...
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The story of the passionate relationship between Cathy Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff.
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